National Biodiversity Authority (NBA)

Consultant – Biodiversity Law

Educational requirements ( शैक्षिक आवश्यकता ) : A Degree in law, with specialization in environmental law with at least 2 years of experience in dealing with biodiversity issues;

Experience requirements ( अनुभव ) :  At least one year experience in dealing with multilateral environmental agreements, such as the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and others;  Working experience in providing legal guidance, analyses and support on environmental law and/or biodiversity law;  Proven skills in preparation of opinions, legal analyses, publications in journals and others;  Proven ability to work in techno-legal teams. Desirable:  Five years of experience in dealing with biodiversity issues.  Three years of experience in dealing with multilateral environmental agreements, such as the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and others;

General directions ( सामान्य निर्देश ) : a. The position should be full time and work environment might be office of the NBA, Chennai. b. The offer will be simply transitory and at first for a period one year (extendable in view of the execution). Notwithstanding, contingent on the work routine and execution of the individual, the time of engagement might be expanded/abridged with the endorsement of the Chairperson, NBA – the Competent Authority.

The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) was built up in 2003 to actualize India’s Biological Diversity Act (2002). The NBA is a Statutory, Autonomous Body and it performs facilitative, administrative and counseling capacity for the Government of India on issues of protection, supportable utilization of organic assets and reasonable and fair sharing of advantages emerging out of the utilization of natural assets.

The Biological Diversity Act (2002) orders usage of the Act through decentralized framework with the NBA concentrating on exhorting the Central Government on issues identifying with the protection of biodiversity, economical utilization of its parts and impartial sharing of advantages emerging out of the use of natural assets; and prompting the State Governments in the determination of territories of biodiversity significance to be informed under Sub-Section (1) of Section 37 as legacy destinations and measures for the administration of such legacy locales;

The State Biodiversity Boards (SBBs) concentrate on prompting the State Governments, subject to any rules issued by the Central Government, on issues identifying with the preservation of biodiversity, supportable utilization of its parts and impartial sharing of the advantages emerging out of the use of organic assets;

The SSBs likewise control, by conceding of endorsements or generally asks for business use or bio-review and bio-usage of any organic asset by Indians. The nearby level Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs) are in charge of advancing protection, economical utilize and documentation of natural decent variety including safeguarding of living spaces, preservation of land races, people assortments and cultivars, trained stocks and types of creatures and microorganisms and chronicling of information identifying with organic decent variety.

The NBA with its base camp in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, conveys its command through a structure that contains the Authority, Secretariat, SBBs, BMCs and Expert Committees.

Since its foundation, NBA has bolstered formation of SBBs in 29 States and, encouraged foundation of around 37,769 BMCs